Tesco is facing Britain's largest ever equal pay claim and a possible compensation bill of up to 4 billion pounds (C$7 billion), according to a law firm which has begun legal proceedings. It comes as a campaign for equal pay grows in the U.K.

Workers at Wendy’s in Thunder Bay, Ont., join UFCW

Workers at Wendy’s restaurant on Memorial Avenue in Thunder Bay, Ont., voted March 8, to join United Food and Commercial Workers Canada (UFCW).

The issues that brought the employees — who are mostly young workers — to seek union representation with UFCW, Local 175, ranged from poor workplace conditions to unfair scheduling practices, as well as workplace harassment, intimidation, and threats that their jobs would be replaced with temporary foreign workers, according to the union.